A six-month-old baby girl hospitalized in early May at the Padua hospital for cerebral haemorrhage was found positive for cocaine.

The parents were heard on the case because, among the hypotheses taken into consideration by the carabinieri, there is also the one that the little girl has suffered mistreatment.

The child, as reported by local newspapers, had been urgently transferred from the hospital in Chioggia on 9 May, where she had been taken two days earlier in the throes of sickness and vomiting . Trauma on the little body would also have been noted.

What we want to clarify now is whether or not the newborn was a victim of the "baby shake" syndrome , the violent and continuous shaking to make her stop crying or if it was a simple inattention.

The Venice Public Prosecutor's Office has currently opened a file without the hypothesis of a crime and without suspects. The drug , traced through the examination of the hair, would not have been ingested but absorbed by proximity .

The child's condition has improved in the last few days.

(Unioneonline / vl)